Brand hires model to strip for Facebook ‘likes’

Those are the words of Colin Lamberton, the creative director at ad firm Arnold Amsterdam, which is behind the provocative new Facebook campaign, "Like to see less, and share to undress," for Stüssy’s Amsterdam branch.

Here’s the gist: A model is dressed head to toe in every piece of clothing from Stüssy’s spring/summer 2012 line. Every time someone “likes” the brand on Facebook, she removes an item of clothing. Currently, the page has 607 likes, and the model, well, she has quite a few more layers to go before the final reveal.

“As you can imagine the model must be suffocating under that many layers of clothing. It is almost a public duty to free her out of this misery so we are expecting Facebook fans to help out here. Like and undress.”

“The use of the word stripper in association with your brand name isn’t necessarily something you would want, now is it? Particularly when you also sell women’s clothing.

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“The ad campaign is clearly pointing directly at Stüssy’s male audience, and could easily end up alienating half its consumer base. While it may do its part to boost the Dutch page’s modest fan following … it’s safe to assume that the majority are hitting the ‘like’ button for all the wrong reasons.”

Plus, as The Next Web notes, it might draw scrutiny from Facebook’s censors.